In Their Time: In the 1500s Swiss alchemist Paracelsus coined the term “Gnome,” but really the word “Gnome” had been around for a millenium. In the 1500s Europeans began to litter their lawns with gnomes. In the late 1940s the gnomes began cropping up in lawns in the United States after troops returned home from WWII after having seen gnomes in Eurpean lawns that we didn’t blow up.
Our Weirdo: Frondelac the Gnome and all the other gnomes had kept themselves secret from us humans by purposefly hiding from us. But Frondelac loved attention and the attention of his people wasn’t enough. Frondelac showed himself to Paracelsus and other people in Switzerland. The other gnomes were aghast and put a death warrant out on Frondelac’s head, but crafty Frondelac started making lawn gnomes to hide his tracks from him people. To this day Frondelac hasn’t been found by his fellow gnomes.
